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Recent Posts:

  • Monarch’s Last Stand
  • Homegrown National Park
  • Resilient Fall Bloomers
  • Covering Ground – Preventing Weeds with Living Mulch
  • Ecological Landscaping, another view
  • What happened to 2019? (and the 1900’s for that matter!)
  • Ramblings in May
  • A Case for Non Native Plants
  • Tri Color Beech for Summer color and winter bark
  • School Trees Not Street Trees
  • Live Stakes for Landscaping as Inexpensive Plants
  • Two shade loving Asters that pollinators flock to
  • Adding the Ground Layer to Finish an Ecological Garden Design
  • Trees for wet areas and poorly drained soils
  • Wildlife Friendly Garden Design
  • Trees for Carbon Sequestration and Wildlife Support
  • Landscaping for your grandchildren
  • Purple Fountain beech as a perfect specimen
  • Pollinator Garden Plan with Plant Descriptions
  • Simple Prairie Planting
  • Pondless Waterfall redo Plantings a Year Later
  • Rain Garden for a Sunny Site
  • 3 Native Perennials for Fall Interest You Might Not Know
  • How will you celebrate Earth Day?
  • 7 things landscapers do that tick me off
  • Backyard with a Prairie and a Pond Part 2
  • Ecological Landscape Design with a Prairie and a Pond Part 1
  • My names not Annabelle! It’s Haas Halo Hydrangea!
  • Pondless Waterfall Renovation
  • Keeping Deer Ticks out of your Landscape
  • A (mostly) Native Perennial Plug Planting Twelve Months Later
  • North Star Cherry is a great smaller fruit tree
  • Native Groundcovers beat the alternatives by not $#@ing up your environment
  • Trees for an Ecological Backyard
  • Native Plants of the Midwest Book Review
  • Ecological Backyard Landscape Design
  • Naturalistic Front Yard landscape design
  • Planting Plugs is a Cheap and Easy Way to Plant a Landscape
  • 12 Perennials for Attracting Butterflies in the Midwest
  • American Hazelnut is a great native shrub for wildlife
  • Backyard Landscape design finished
  • Garden Revolution Book Review, one of my favorite new books
  • Moving from functional diagram to design
  • Landscape Functional diagram, a key step in creating a landscape design
  • Appalachian Spring dogwood
  • Finishing our Base Map adding sun, shade, and wind
  • Simple Plant combos can be a solution to a garden area
  • Looking at a site’s landscape soils
  • Katsura tree is a great tree from Asia
  • Base plan is the foundation of your landscape design
  • Creating your landscape wish list
  • Are straight lines a bad idea in a naturalistic garden?
  • Gardener gift ideas
  • The importance of a site assessment BEFORE you design your landscape
  • Red vs Black Chokeberry, which is better for landscape use?
  • Fascination in our Garden Can Clear and Restore Our Mind
  • Wrapping up a Front yard using landscaper’s favorite plants
  • Front yard using landscaper’s favorite plants part 2
  • Front yard design using landscaper’s favorites
  • 12 easy care perennials, landscapers favorites part 2
  • Landscapers favorite perennials, Part One, one’s you might know
  • The plants I hate to leave behind
  • Positive and negative space in the garden
  • Butterfly weed an orange flower for us all
  • Landscapers favorite shrubs, some good, some not so good
  • Landscapers favorite Hydrangeas are shrubs for Summer
  • Landscapers favorite trees the good, the bad, and the ugly
  • How close should I plant a tree to my house?
  • Tough plants found by following a tough crowd
  • Simple Spring clean up
  • Virginia Bluebells signal Spring
  • End of an era
  • Switchgrass, a great native ornamental grass
  • Backyard for Bird watchers part 5
  • Backyard for bird watchers Part 4
  • Backyard landscape design for birds Part 3
  • Backyard for the birds, a Landscape for bird watchers Part 2
  • Backyard for bird watchers
  • What do you really want?
  • The Living Landscape Book review
  • Using plant associates to find native plant ideas
  • Replace your lawn with?
  • Tyranny of the turf
  • Using plant textures in your garden design
  • Plant texture in the garden
  • Creativity in garden design
  • Cheap easy fire pit
  • Canadian ginger, a native made for the shade
  • 100th post
  • Plants for your Nature Inspired Garden: How to Find
  • Land Cover Viewer for identifying natural areas
  • Woodland inspired garden plants by layer
  • Woodland as garden inspiration, finding local inspiration part 2
  • Local Inspiration for your Nature Inspired Garden Part 1
  • Japanese Garden How to Book Suggestions
  • Smaller understory trees for a tight spot
  • Blue and yellow evergreens
  • Blue False Indigo (Baptisia australis), a native for today’s landscape
  • Small backyard Japanese garden design Part 5 adding a tsukubai
  • How to prune cane type shrubs simply

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